Alert archive / Louisiana / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Mar 18, 2000, 4:44 PM CST for Webster Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2000, 4:44 PM CST (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 5:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Doyline, LA | Trees and powerlines down. |
| Mar 18, 5:00 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Doyline, LA | |
| Mar 18, 5:07 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Minden, LA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KSHV 182246 TORSHV LAC119-182330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 444 PM CST SAT MAR 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WEBSTER PARISH IN LOUISIANA * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 444 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST MINDEN MOVIN%G EAST AT 25 MPH. REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WEBSTER PARISH IN LOUISIANA UNTIL 530 PM CST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 57 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.